Comparison of word-, sentence-, and phoneme-based training strategies in improving the perception of spectrally distorted speech

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 526-538

  Stacey, Paula C ^a,b,c   Summerfield, A Quentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory training; Cochlear implants; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS; SIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAINING; VOWEL;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 45249089927     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/038)     Document Type: Article

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